November 2012

Last week Morris Dancers in Warlingham, Surrey were asked not to continue their performance outside The White Lion pub as the police had received complaints from a member of the public about the noise. Continue Reading

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is a well established presence on the contemporary dance scene, but one who works on the raw outskirts of the austere. 'En Atendant', the first in a matching pair of works be… Continue Reading

En Atendant is demanding of its audience. If your attention wanders, you may lose your grip on it altogether. But its orchestration of structural sophistication, intimate detail and sweeping vision is exceptional, especially at the end, as the light fades and one naked…

Philippe Decouflé‘s Panorama celebrates 30 years of his choreographic journey in dance, circus, theatre, costuming, creative innovation and story-telling. Not just a retrospective, this is Decoufle sharin… Continue Reading

Anyone who queries ballet’s viability as a 21st-century art form would find their answer in this programme – and not only in the quality of the choreography and music. This is work that elicits fabulously alert dancing at every level, from principal all the way…

It’s a show that tickles the eyeballs, and there’s only one scene that gets under the skin: an aerial lovers’ tiff where the couple are bound to each other by ropes that (like their ties to each other) allow them to fly and yet also drag them down to earth.

But beauty’s a given with Maliphant, and his choreographic text is too referential, and perhaps too deferential, for us to gain much purchase…In the second half, though, Maliphant escapes his source material and remote past becomes vibrant present.